Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games

How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the 'new world order'? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides a brilliant new perspective on modern media.How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the 'new world order'? In asse